Listen to The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness

Meet your next audiobook: The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness written by Stanton Marlan. A solid pick in Art.

In the image of the black sun, Marlan finds the hint of a shadowedness that shines. He draws upon his clinical experiences – and on a wide range of literature and art, including Goethe’s Faust, Dante’s Inferno, the black art of Rothko and Reinhardt – to explore the influence of light and shadow on the fundamental structures of modern thought as well as t In this audiobook, Jungian analyst Stanton Marlan reexamines the paradoxical image of the black sun and the meaning of darkness in Western culture.

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